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  2. THE WORLD'S PRESS.

    The chair, with its covering of red velvet, in which Charles I. sat at his trial in the High Court of Justice is still extant, preserved in a cottage hospital at Moreton-in-the-Marsh, ...

    Article : 66 words
  3. Gasworks as Health Besorts.

    It is a common practice in districts where asthma and bronchitis are prevalent for people to purchase at the gasworks a small quantity of tar, which is put into a gallipot, jar, or other vessel, ...

    Article : 79 words
  4. THEY CAME; THEY SAW; BUT

    President Roosevelt informed Messrs Wolmarans and Weasels that the United States could not and would not interfere in the Smith African struggle. As Mr. Dooley said of the former ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  5. "Leader of British Politics."

    In spite of everything said against him at home and abroad, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, more than ever before, was last month the recognised leader of British politics—the man of courage, force, ...

    Article : 61 words
  6. Six Hundred Miles an Hour.

    It is difficult to account for the enormous velocity of some birds' flight when migrating. The northern blue throat goes at the rate of 540 miles an hour, flying 4800 miles from Egypt to ...

    Article : 96 words
  7. Professional Chaperons.

    Although we all wish to believe that there is no market value for chaperons, we know that they are sometimes to be influenced, by pecuniary considerations, to undertake the wearisome task ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. Fighting Cat Clubs.

    Nothing hag attained such wonderful proportions in a short time as the taste for collecting and breeding pedigree cats. The pioneer of this movement was Lady Marcus Beresford. Many ...

    Article : 94 words
  9. Stalking the Bacillus.

    We shall be curious to learn the result of t[?]e examination into the air of the House of Commons. It is not probable that the influenza bacillus will itself be caught red-handed; but we ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. Lord Methuen and the Irish.

    It is something monstrous that the report of a national catastrophe should be hailed in one's own country by a political party. But with what moderation, tolerance, and self-control was even ...

    Article : 71 words
  11. Anxious English Mothers.

    In England it is a weighty matter when there are several daughters in the family, and no man in sight to marry them to except the curate. The romantic reserve with which we Americans ...

    Article : 115 words
  12. The Motor-Car Season.

    The London season of 1902 is to be the Motor-Car Season. It is expected that for every motor-car that ran through Piccadilly a year ago 10 will two months hence! Many American and ...

    Article : 83 words
  13. TEN GOOD RULES.

    1. Don't leave your house in the morning with en empty stomach. 2. Never expose yourself to cold air immediately after you have partaken of a warm liquid of any kind. ...

    Article : 237 words
  14. Misguided Sentiment.

    From the poor girl who jumps into the river because she is unloved to the smallpox victim who will not have "matter from an animal put into him" misguided sentiment in one way and ...

    Article : 49 words
  15. Courtship in the Trees.

    At this period of the year it is no uncommon thing for some of the young rooks, on flirtation bent, to introduce themselves to eligible partners in the rival camp. When this happens those ...

    Article : 90 words
  16. Minding Other People's Wars.

    Most people in Holland who concentrate their attention on the struggle in South Africa are ignorant of and indifferent to their own endless war in Atchin. Yet if Holland lost her East ...

    Article : 61 words
  17. In Farthing Land.

    A satisfying breakfast in Dorset-street, Poplar (London), is made up of farthings'-worths. Bill of fare: Bloater, ¼d; margarine, ¼d; bread, ¼d; coffee, ¼d. Or for the bloater and margarine ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. Democracy and Knee-Breeches.

    There is nothing inconsistent with our democracy in making Prince Henry feel, by all proper means, that we are glad to have him visit us. But there will be something grossly inconsistent ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. Sea Shanties Going.

    The fifties and sixties were the palmy days of shanty singing, when, if you had a white starboard and a nigger port watch, the shantying was endiess. It is becoming a lost art; the wxetched ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. THE RISKS RUN.

    Jane: "There's always one puzzling thing about bargains." John: "What's that?" Jane: "why, you never can tell whether [?] ...

    Article : 33 words
  21. Male Tastes in Beauty.

    Maidesa who have passed their 30th year may now claim that they represent the most per[?] and advanced type of maidenhood, and look down upon girls who marry before 25 as very ...

    Article : 118 words
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